Friday, October 9

Church News · 1 min

Church News passes along FamilySearch's list of ways to mark October as Family History Month, from online tools to recipes and family storytelling.

Church News · 3 min

Church News announces the Orchestra at Temple Square's free fall concert in the Tabernacle on Friday, Oct. 23, and notes that this year's tickets can't be swapped for Christmas concert seats.

Church News · 3 min

Church News reports the Church's $3 million donation toward the National Juneteenth Museum in Fort Worth, announced on Dr. Opal Lee's 100th birthday, along with a 38,000-pound food delivery.

Church News · 4 min

A short recap of Elder Pedro X. Larreal's October 2 BYU–Pathway Worldwide devotional, built around three principles and his own story of seeking an education in Venezuela.

Church News · 9 min

A roundup of Church and member disaster relief since May 2026 in Venezuela, the Philippines, Wisconsin, Kenya, Colombia, France, Spain and Japan, framed by President Oaks's Sept. 16 remarks on helping hands as peacemaking.

Church News · 4 min

A report on Primary General President Rosemary K. Chibota's September 11-21 ministry in the Philippines, her first international assignment, covering a devotional, child nutrition screenings, a hospital donation and a missionary devotional.

Church News · 4 min

A report on Sister Tamara W. Runia's Oct. 6 devotional at the Provo MTC, built around three truths that can feel too good to be true.

Church Newsroom · 3 min

A short Newsroom video from Fort Worth, Texas, where the Church announced a $3 million gift toward the National Juneteenth Museum on Opal Lee's 100th birthday and delivered a truckload of food to local food banks.

Church Newsroom · 5 min

The Newsroom release on the Church's $3 million commitment to the National Juneteenth Museum in Fort Worth and a same-day food donation to five local food banks.

Church Newsroom · 3 min

A Newsroom photo gallery of the reopened Temple Square during October 2026 general conference weekend, with captions on what's new.

Clark G. Gilbert · 8 min

Elder Clark G. Gilbert teaches Isaiah 53 alongside Alma 7, showing that the Savior's Atonement covers grief and suffering as well as sin, and tells the mission experience that taught him that.

BYU-Idaho Speeches · 110 min

For BYU-Idaho's 25th anniversary, President Alvin F. Meredith III and Sister Jennifer Meredith interview Elder David A. and Sister Susan K. Bednar about turning Ricks College into a four-year university, with Elder Bednar's apostolic testimony at the close.

Christian Homestead · 34 min

Jared answers a viewer who asked why the October 2026 general conference barely mentioned the Second Coming, by tallying recent Second Coming quotes from Church leaders and adding a 2023 BYU-Idaho quote about being "in preparation mode."

Christian Homestead · 38 min

Jared uses a viewer's note that the Vienna Austria Temple will stand where a meetinghouse used to be as a springboard to speculate that chapels and stake centers could be converted into temples if Church growth spikes before or at the Second Coming.

Christian Homestead · 31 min

Jared of Christian Homestead continues on President Oaks's conference remarks about more scripture coming forth, guesses it could arrive in 2027 for the 200th anniversary of Joseph Smith receiving the gold plates, and reads older apostolic quotes about records of the lost tribes.

RISE ZION · 28 min

Seth, a portrait artist, compares the locket daguerreotype claimed to show Joseph Smith against his death mask and life portraits, timed to a documentary opening Oct. 9, and concludes it is probably a different man.

RISE ZION · 22 min

Seth of Rise Zion looks at local midweek meetings on October 7 where wards in some western areas gathered to watch the first episode of the Church's "Dedicate" series about the Salt Lake Temple, then reads them as part of a scriptural gathering pattern.

Thoughtful Faith · 17 min

An argument that the creedal "two natures" doctrine of Christ is incoherent, and that the Latter-day Saint reading of Philippians 2 (Christ emptied Himself, then was exalted) fits the Bible better.

The Stick of Joseph · 40 min

A companion conversation to the last main chapter of Austin Fife's book on supporting loved ones who doubt, with Ashly Stone of The Comeback Podcast sharing how she and others returned to the Church.

Jesus Christ in Scripture · 10 min

Tammy Hall and Donald W. Parry read Isaiah 63 with Revelation 19 and D&C 133 to answer whether Christ will return in red, and tie the red garments to Gethsemane and the Atonement.

Jesus Christ in Scripture · 13 min

Tammy Hall and Donald W. Parry walk through Isaiah 58 verse by verse: the wrong way to fast, the right way, and the 13 blessings the chapter promises.

followHIM Podcast · 3 min

John Bytheway tells the story of a one-armed boy who wins a judo tournament as an illustration of Isaiah 61's "beauty for ashes."

followHIM Podcast · 103 min

Hank Smith and John Bytheway close their Isaiah lessons with Sharon Eubank, the Church's recently retired humanitarian director, reading Isaiah 58 to 66 through Jesus's Nazareth sermon, caring for the poor, and what building Zion asks of ordinary members.

Scripture Central · 36 min

John Hilton III's Come Follow Me class on Isaiah 58 to 66, organized around five themes: the true fast, the Jubilee, the day of vengeance, the new creation and the Messiah wearing red.

Unshaken · 24 min

An Unshaken devotional on Isaiah 54 as the reassurance that follows Isaiah 53: the Lord as husband to the forsaken, mercy after a "small moment," and peace for wandering children.

Unshaken · 41 min

A verse-by-verse Unshaken devotional on Isaiah 53, the fourth servant song, read through Abinadi's use of it in Mosiah 14-15 as a picture of Christ trading places with us.